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By: Mike Carey
Posted: 2/8/2003
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Rating: 3
Fished: 2/8/2003
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Went fishing with Carl. We started at Elliot Bay, fished for an hour. Although there were good bait balls in the bay (say that real fast), the fishing was nada. So we ran over to 4 Mile Rock and i...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 1/7/2003
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Rating: 3
Fished: 1/7/2003
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Squid fishing was fair to good last night. I started at 7pm, quit at 9pm. High tide was 7:30. No super fast action but steady. Most f the suid are the bigger ones now. I did only fair, but the guy ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 12/13/2002
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Rating: 2
Fished: 12/13/2002
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Squiding so slow tonight. My friend Brad and I started at 8pm and finished at 9:30. Caught a total of 6 squid between us, one good sized one. Saw a few being caught but no big rush to the pier. High...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/30/2002
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Rating: 1
Fished: 11/30/2002
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Dead, dead, dead. The fish are there but they aren't biting. At least not this day. We saw fair numbers of fish jumping but they were very dark and not bitign. The snaggers were getting theirs but...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/20/2002
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Rating: 1
Fished: 11/20/2002
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So it's Wednesday and the Indians haven't been netting Hoodsport on Wednesdays. Until this week. Having never seen a netting operation, I figure "hey, we can find a spot to fish, how bad can it be?"...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/17/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 11/17/2002
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I took my sons for morning chum action. The fishing continues to be great. We started fishing at 7:30am, low tide was I think around 10:30 or so. The fish are in thick. Best setup was a small pink c...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 11/13/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 11/13/2002
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Hoodsport is indeed in full swing. I started fishing at 8am, surprised by the sparse mid-week crowds. Plenty of fish to go around. Fishing from a boat, I started off slow compared to those around me...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/25/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 9/25/2002
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Out on the water at 0600 with Tom, in his boat. The target - silvers, of course. Tom has no downriggers so he was using a Deep 6 with medium flasher and hoochie. I brought along my "Poor Man's Downrig...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/18/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 9/18/2002
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The coho fishing was hot today! My sons and I met Tom Jacobs at Shilshole and after dropping off his pots we motored over to Meadow Point. We started fishing 0700. Within two minutes of dropping our...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 9/4/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 9/4/2002
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Don't tell me this web site doesn't provide valuable information! I checked out Tom's report below and said to my friend Manual, "lets try Meadow Point, looks like the fish are starting to come in."...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/28/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 8/28/2002
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Took my sons and their friend Addy salmon fishing. We launched at 6am at Shilshole, dropped two pots and ran over to Jeff Head. Started fishing at 7am. The setups: deep rod @ 65 feet, red flasher...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/21/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 8/21/2002
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I took my sons to fish the lake in the morning. We started out near by the dam, northwest corner of the lake. Couldn't keep the kokanee off the riggers! The hot rig was a small gang troll, small spinn...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/16/2002
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Rating: 2
Fished: 8/16/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Went fishing on Opening Day of Chinook on the lake with Carl and Tom. We used downriggers, fishing varies depths out from the mouth of the creek to the southwest point. There were fish out there, both...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 8/7/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 8/7/2002
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Tom Jacobs and I hit the water at Point Defiance. We fished in front of the slag pile from 6am to 9am. Saw several nice kings caught. We trolled cut plug herring and hoochie/flashers with herring ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/28/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/28/2002
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Sockeye 2002! A bonus awaited my return from vacation - the sockeye run had reached escapement goals and was opened for the 26-28th. I put the boat in at 2:45pm at Coulon with my sons. We started at t...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 7/10/2002
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Rating: 2
Fished: 7/10/2002
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It was tough fishing on the Bar today. Not the weather the fish. We launced out of Edmonds at 7am, dropped a couple pots and went over to Apple Cove Point. Fished till 9am. One release at 8am, qui...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 6/12/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 6/12/2002
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I took a scouting expedition to Tanwax to get some pictures for a future Feature Lake article. Trolled to the north end of the lake using a worm harness/spinner combo. No takers. When I got to the nor...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/30/2002
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Rating: 2
Fished: 5/30/2002
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After Carl's excellent outings I had to give it a try. I had two friends with me so I knew we could cover the water column very well. I also know that lake Washington can be generous one day, tough th...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/23/2002
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Rating: 1
Fished: 5/23/2002
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Fished the low morning tide at several spots, mainly focused on Rich's Passage and the artificial reef at Blake Island. The target was ling cod, the bait was jigs with curly worms. We caught a few n...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/23/2002
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Rating: 2
Fished: 5/23/2002
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Tom Jacobs and I had a morning of good entertainment. First we drove up to the Mukilteo launch to begin our day, only to find the piers removed from the boat launch! Anyone know when those go back...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/17/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 5/17/2002
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Three great days in Neah Bay. My friend Brad and I fished our of his 22 foot boat. We travelled out to Blue Dot (way too far!), Swiftsure (just right), and fished the Duncan Rock area as well as point...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/4/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/4/2002
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Fished the Lind Coulee branch of the Pot Holes with guide Curt Welch and his friend, Mike. It was a day of solid action. We caught 44 walleye, 14 legals and a nice small mouth bass. The rig of the day...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 5/1/2002
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/1/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake from 6:50am to 9am. No Opening Day crowds but not as many fish either (at least not as many fish that were biting). I was trolling and tried a variety of lures ranging from quik fish to p...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/28/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/28/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Pine Lake never lets me down. We started with spoons and plugs and when that slowed down switched to power bait trolled with small spin n glows or just yarn balls. Caught the usual assortment of fish ...
By: Mike Carey
Posted: 4/9/2002
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Rating: 1
Fished: 4/9/2002
Hot Spots: 0
I drove down to Wenas lake in pursuit of monster German Brown trout. Reports of 10-13 pound monsters had piqued my interest. Got there at 7pm and put in, fished for about 45 minutes before dark. I dec...